One Battle After Another Trivia
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49 free One Battle After Another trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This One Battle After Another trivia quiz covers Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 Best Picture winner. It follows Ghetto Pat and Perfidia from the raid on Otay Mesa through the birth of Charlene, the betrayal, the sixteen years off-grid in Baktan Cross, Colonel Lockjaw's return, the Christmas Adventurers Club, the revolutionary nuns, Sergio St. Carlos's karate students, the desert car chase over blind summits and the countersign that ends it. Behind the scenes it covers the Thomas Pynchon novel Anderson wanted to adapt for two decades, Chase Infiniti's six-month audition, the VistaVision cameras restored by Giovanni Ribisi, the 1.5 million feet of film, Ronald Reagan's old mansion as the Club's headquarters, the two-and-a-half-month pause for Benicio del Toro, the $130 to $175 million budget, the test screenings and Jonny Greenwood's score. It ends with the 98th Academy Awards, where the film's thirteen nominations became six wins including the first-ever Best Casting Oscar. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01In One Battle After Another, what was Bob Ferguson's speciality in his days as a young revolutionary?
Explosives
Explosives. His comrades called him Rocketman, but by the time his daughter is a teenager he is a paranoid stoner who cannot recall the passwords his old network demands.
Q 02Paul Thomas Anderson filmed Inherent Vice in 2014; which other Thomas Pynchon novel inspired One Battle After Another?
Vineland
Vineland. He had wanted to film it since the early 2000s but found it too hard to adapt, so he kept its father-and-daughter story and, as he put it, stole the parts that spoke to him.
Q 03Who plays the washed-up revolutionary Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio. He plays the burnt-out radical for laughs: the first trailer opens with him shuffling into a grocery store in a plaid bathrobe, then scrambling for a payphone.
Q 04What is the revolutionary group in One Battle After Another called?
The French 75
The French 75. In the film they black out power grids with bombs, and the group was modelled partly on real American radicals of the Vietnam era such as the Weather Underground.
Q 05Who plays Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another?
Sean Penn
Sean Penn. He plays the colonel with a growl and a rigid physicality that one critic called a riot to watch, and the part brought him a third Oscar, his first for a supporting role.
Q 06Who plays Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another?
Teyana Taylor
Teyana Taylor. Perfidia vanishes from the story after its first act and returns only as a letter read at the end, yet the part won Taylor the Golden Globe for supporting actress.
Q 07Who plays Willa Ferguson in One Battle After Another?
Chase Infiniti
Chase Infiniti. It was her first film, won after a six-month audition that ended with karate classes to prove she could handle the fights and stunts herself.
Q 08Who plays Sergio St. Carlos, Willa's karate sensei, in One Battle After Another?
Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro. His unflappable sensei has one of the film's most quoted lines, offering the panicking Bob 'a few small beers', and the part brought him an Oscar nomination.
Q 09In the opening of One Battle After Another, what do the revolutionaries raid on the Mexican border?
A migrant detention centre
A migrant detention centre. They free the people held at Otay Mesa, south of San Diego, and Perfidia humiliates its commander at gunpoint, which is where his obsession with her begins.
Q 10Why is Perfidia arrested in One Battle After Another?
She kills a guard in a bank robbery
She kills a guard in a bank robbery. The killing is a turning point: to stay out of prison she names her comrades, and Lockjaw uses the list to hunt them down one by one.
Q 11Which director, hosting a Q&A after an early screening, called One Battle After Another 'an insane movie'?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg. He told Anderson its first hour had more action than all his earlier films put together, and said its deadpan absurdity reminded him of Dr. Strangelove.
Q 12In One Battle After Another, what cover story does Lockjaw use to send troops into Bob's town?
An immigration and drugs sweep
An immigration and drugs sweep. His real quarry is one man and his teenage daughter, and the show of force brings protesters onto the streets until the town tips into a riot.
Q 13In One Battle After Another, what is the Christmas Adventurers Club?
Q 21Where is Willa heading in the final scene of One Battle After Another?
A protest in Oakland
A protest in Oakland. Bob, who has spent her whole life keeping her hidden, stays at home this time and gives her his blessing as she goes off to take up the fight herself.
Q 22One Battle After Another earned a record seven nominations at the awards of which Hollywood guild?
The actors' guild
The actors' guild. SAG-AFTRA nominated five of its performers plus its cast and its stunt team, the most for any film in the awards' history, yet only one of the seven became a win.
Q 23Which vintage widescreen format was most of One Battle After Another shot in?
VistaVision
A white supremacist secret society
A white supremacist secret society. Its rules bar anyone who has had an interracial relationship, which is why Lockjaw sets out to erase every trace of his past with Perfidia.
Q 14In One Battle After Another, what has Bob told Willa about her mother?
That she died a hero
That she died a hero. While in hiding Willa learns the truth: her mother informed on her own comrades to stay out of prison, then slipped away and vanished.
Q 15In One Battle After Another, where does Deandra take Willa after the school dance raid?
A convent of revolutionary nuns
A convent of revolutionary nuns. The film's Sisters of the Brave Beaver were modelled on a real Californian group, the cannabis-growing 'weed nuns' of the Sisters of the Valley.
Q 16In One Battle After Another, how does Lockjaw confirm that Willa is his daughter?
A DNA kit he has brought along
A DNA kit he has brought along. He runs the test on the spot while holding her hostage, in a scene filmed inside the church of a real Spanish mission, La Purísima near Lompoc.
Q 17In One Battle After Another, who shoots Lockjaw in the face as he drives?
The Christmas Adventurers' hitman
The Christmas Adventurers' hitman. The club he longed to join had found out about his past with Perfidia and sent Tim Smith to 'clean up', though Lockjaw survives the shot.
Q 18In One Battle After Another, why does the bounty hunter Avanti refuse to kill Willa?
Her age
Her age. He agrees merely to hand her to a militia, then thinks better of it once there, frees her and dies in a gunfight with them.
Q 19How does Willa finally stop her pursuer, Tim Smith, in One Battle After Another?
Shoots him after a crash
Shoots him after a crash. She uses the blind crests of a rolling desert road to wreck his car, challenges him for the revolutionaries' countersign and fires when he has no answer.
Q 20In One Battle After Another, what happens to the scarred Lockjaw at the Christmas Adventurers Club?
He is gassed and cremated
He is gassed and cremated. The members appear to welcome him at last and show him to an office of his own, and it is there, as he sits beaming, that they have him killed.
VistaVision. The 1950s system runs 35mm film sideways through the camera so that each frame is twice the usual size, and the crew strapped the bulky old cameras to speeding cars.
Q 24Which actor lent One Battle After Another's crew a vintage film camera he had refurbished himself?
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi. A collector, he had pieced his camera together from scavenged parts and restored it so well that the director decided the old format had become practical to shoot with.
Q 25The name of One Battle After Another's Perfidia is a Latin word meaning what?
Treachery
Treachery. The name fits: Perfidia informs on her own comrades to stay out of prison, and the old song 'Perfidia', in a recording by Los Panchos, turns up on the film's soundtrack.
Q 26In One Battle After Another, the Christmas Adventurers Club meets in a Sacramento mansion known as whose?
Ronald Reagan's
Ronald Reagan's. A fitting address: the novel behind the film is set in 1984, the year he won a second term as president.
Q 27Which 1970s thriller did Anderson and his cinematographer take as the visual model for One Battle After Another?
The French Connection
The French Connection. They wanted its rough, low-budget 1970s look, then had to coax that grit out of a large film format prized for its rich, pristine image.
Q 28Which Wes Anderson film forced a two-and-a-half-month break in the shooting of One Battle After Another?
The Phoenician Scheme
The Phoenician Scheme. One of the cast was committed to it, and rather than recast the part the director stopped the shoot, saying there was no possible way to make the film without him.
Q 29Who composed the score of One Battle After Another, his sixth feature with Paul Thomas Anderson?
Jonny Greenwood
Jonny Greenwood. He was involved from the start and wrote while filming was under way, so the crew could play his music over each day's footage and feel the tone.
Q 30To whom is One Battle After Another dedicated?
First AD and producer Adam Somner
First AD and producer Adam Somner. He died in November 2024, ten months before the film opened, and was named among the winners when it went on to take the Best Picture Oscar.